The sheer diversity of wares on view at any contemporary fair is enough to make even the most seasoned art lover wonder, “What is art?” That, indeed, was just what was on the mind of young artist ...

Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join us every week for an ...

Never underestimate the power of the puncturing prank. It acts as subversion, and before you know it, that April Fool’s joke becomes the order of the day, the next gospel, the affirmed orthodoxy.

ART OF THE PRANK screens Saturday, Nov. 5 at 5:30pm at .ZACK (3224 Locust Ave.) as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Director Andrea Marini, producer Judy Drosd, and Joey ...

Pretty-much-anonymous street artist Banksy was back in the headlines this weekend thanks to his self-shredding picture. We take a look at other classic art-world pranks that have confounded and ...

A pair of glasses on an art gallery floor. Art? Or prank? A pair of glasses on an art gallery floor. Art? Or prank? What about a urinal? We compare recent pranks in art museums to art that uses some ...

On a recent Saturday at the Whitney Museum, visitors were ushered into a small side gallery and shown a sculptural table setting with the head of Katy Perry as its pièce de résistance. The bland viral ...

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Ellen DeGeneres, and Jimmy Kimmel may be known as the ultimate pranksters, but Katy Perry may be giving them a run for their money. The pop star decided to have a little fun ...

So rarely does the art world make international headlines, I would be remiss not to share my thoughts on Banksy’s now-infamous Oct. 5 stunt: publicly and purposefully shredding an iconic painting that ...

Can artificial intelligence produce art? Social media user “SHL0MS” devised a brilliant means of testing this question. SHL0MS presented his followers with two images Tuesday. The first, an ...